Spring Classes

So far here are the classes I'm signed up for for the Spring semester. This may change but for now I think it's a pretty nice line up.

Culture Media & Education: (Online)
Culture(s) and media share a mutually constitutive relationship: cultures shape and are shaped by media and technologies, and media shape and are shaped by cultural practices, institutions, and artifacts. In this course, we will have the opportunity to explore this dynamic relationship as we study the ways in which different media and technologies are situated across various cultural contexts, both nationally and internationally. We will also explore a range of media/technology integration in education and bring to our exploration various cultural lenses. The course will address the following topics: (1) “reading” media and culture; (2) representation and media; (3) media, education, and pedagogy. Readings in this course will draw from a wide range of scholarly areas including popular culture, multiculturalism, cultural studies, literacies studies, youth culture, communication and media studies, the anthropology of media, and others. Throughout the course we will consider the cultural implications of media and technologies for education by pairing theoretical frameworks with case studies and other examples of empirical research.

Flash Programming II: (Tuesday 2:50pm-5pm)
The continuation of flash programming I.

TV & Youth Development: (Wednesday 3:00pm-4:40pm)
This course brings a sociocultural lens to issues related to youth (including children and adolescents) and the evolving terrain of television. Students will review research and theories and experiment with media production in this course.

Popular Culture: (Wednesday 7:20pm-9pm)
Critical examination of mass communication as an informal medium of education: film, TV, comic books, music, dance, advertising. "low" vs. "high" culture and hybrid forms. Enrollees learn to create and promote their own pop-cultural commodity.

CoreSeminar: (Every Other Thursday 7:10pm-9pm)
 Discussion of critical issues, reading of key works, development of project in Communication, Computing, and Technology in Education, presentation of work in progress, conversations with leaders in the field.

So basically I have my one online course, and then I have classes Tues, Wed, & every other Thurs.  Pretty cool, huh?